Terminal command to restart Samba?

Anyone know what the terminal command is to restart Samba under OS X 10.5.4?
I've searched all over and can't seem to find the answer to this question. I've tried...
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart
Not valid under OS X
sudo killall -HUP smbd
Not sure if this is working as I get no indication from the terminal that anything has actually happened.
Thank You

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Hello, how can I restart Samba via the Terminal under OS X 10.5.4?
I've tried...
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart
Not valid under OS X
sudo killall -HUP smbd
Not sure if this is working as I get no indication from the terminal that anything has actually happened.
Thank You

sudo killall -HUP smbd
This will only send the HUP signal to all running smbd processes. The processes will trap that signal and do whatever their signal handlers tell them to do (I think a HUP will make them reread their configuration files). You will not get any output when that command completes successfully, so what you're seeing is expected.
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# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too
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Hi I have exactly the same problem. I'm pretty sure that somehow is related with the hardware of the computer, as only one of my computers seems to be affected by this problem. I'm I a networkmanager user. I have solved the issue by taking away samba from the daemons array in /etc/rc.conf (in fact I putted a ! in front what is the same). An the following the suggestion up. I have made a script "/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/30_samba":
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esac
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Thanks for your help,
G4 Quicksilver Dual 1 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, Sonnet ATA133 card, Maxtor ATA133 drives Mac OS X (10.3.9) B+W G3 450 MHz, OS 9.2.2, 1 GB RAM

If you're the Admin, then you should be able to use Terminal as root to log someone out like this:
sudo killall -u [username]
This should kill all processes in that user account, and it may log them out also (I can't test this on a single user machine). If it doesn't, you can use:
sudo shutdown now
which will log out everyone and shutdown the system to single-user mode for the root/Admin user.
Hope this helps,
Mulder
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